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An innocent man is about to be executed.Only a guilty man can save him.
For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed.
Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.
Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what’s right and confess.
But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?
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2010-10-31
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Thanks for GREAT READ
I am counting on this novel also being made into a movie.....It is fast paced with interesting subplots and cleverly drawn characters who may or may not be the good guys or the bad guys.
Speaking of the characters, some of ya'll who are hollering about stereotypes etc. don't know TX folks....yes indeed all these folks do populate this great state including a major comic whose most well known line is: "IF you come to TX and kill one of us, we WILL kill you back".
Grisham's focus is on the death penalty and the horrors and errors that can occur with the intent to inform and elicit positive action toward a better solution for the punishment phase of crime. Texas has upgraded and updated processes etc and freed many of those wrongfully convicted.....with much much more to be done. Thanks for the focus Mr. Gresham...
do it again.
2010-10-31
By Pastor Dan (Wichita, KS)
Grisham again does a superb job of holding the readers attention. Donte' Drumm's confession comes after hours upon hours of interrogation by the police, after being sleep deprived, lied to, manipulated and coerced. On the other hand Travis Boyette's confession is offered freely to a Lutheran Pastor. So, which of the men really did kill Nicole Yarber?
Without a body how do you have a crime? But the gist of the book is this, Donte Drumm is convicted of murdering Nicole Yarber even though they can not come up with the body. For nine years he languishes on death row waiting to be executed. With less than a week to go before the execution (in Texas) Travis Boyette shows up in Pastor Keith Schroeder's church and confesses that he is the true killer of Nicole Yarber and that Drumm is innocent.
But what is a Pastor to do when things told to him are told in confidence? Boyette also confides that he is dying of a brain tumor. Now the Pastor is left with the task of trying to convince Boyette that the best thing to do is go to Texas and confess to the murder and help to exonerate Drumm.
WIthout giving away major points of the book let me say that you will be entertained and held captive by how things develop. The cast of characters will include a flamboyant defense attorney, an over eager police detective, a manipulative prosecutor who just happens to be having an affair with the judge that sat on the bench for the trial of Drumm.
Grisham is using this novel to deal with the issue of the Death Penalty. While it will be very obvious his opinion of the death penalty and how the legal system is abused it is done in a very intriguing novel.
Grisham is a master writer and you won't be disappointed with this novel. You will be kept on the edge of your seat, you will cheer at the right times and hiss at the right times. You will be disappointed with the legal system, yet pleased with the tenacity and honor of a lawyer, a pastor and an elderly judge.
I highly recommend this novel and believe that you will enjoy every page.
Enjoy!
2010-10-30
By Tom Doerr (Saint Louis, MO)
Busy, boring, not believeable.
This is not up to his usual standards of excellent, category-leading writing.
I made the mistake of buying this in advance, and will not do that again with this author.
The only way the book would have been justified, with all of its extraneous information and stereotypical characters is if it would have been true.
2010-10-30
By Burt R. Mann (Otto, NC USA)
I just finished and enjoyed another great book by John Grisham. Not his best, but still great. I'd really like to award the first half of his novel with 3 stars, and the last half with 5 stars. But go ahead and get it ..... you won't be disappointed.
2010-10-30
By C. King (Las Vegas)
harkens back to the quick, gripping language of the first few Grisham books i loved. a cross country plane ride goes unnoticed due to the fantastic entertainment!
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